The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-23
BUSINESS CHANGE.
HOBBS, BRocKuS1Gn q COMPANY
Dissolve the Co.partnsrship by Limitation
December 81, aud a Joint Stock Com.
pany will Probably DO Formed to
Conduct their Large Works.

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4 For several weeks past thore has been
a well.deaned rumor that the loug.estab.
llshed and widely.known firm Of Hobbs,
Brockunier & Co., owners and operators
Of the South Wheeling Glaea Works, a
pioneer concern in the buainess, whose
namo La known all over the Jsad, was
about 10 wind up its atraIrO. Tho lNrEls,.
oEScER has been for sometime 10 poHes.
sion Of the facts, but in Difference to the
wish Of tho membera Of the firm, has
withhold them. Tho reasons for doing 90
no longer exist. Last night at midnight
tho "metal," as the molten glass in the
pots is technically called, was fnlshed in
the furnaces, and this morning the factory
will ahut down until such time as the
pending disagreement with the glass.
workers Ia adjusted, when 1t will resume
under . new management, probably con.
trolled by joint stock company.
Tho co.partnerahlp expires by limita.
lion December 81, 1887. Some time ago
Mr.. G. W. Brockunier, one Of The three
partners, notified his associates in bust.
ness, Meesrs. John II. Hobbn and William
Leighton, IT,, that he did not desire to re-
new the co.partnerahlp after that date.
Mr.. Brockunier has been confined pretty
closely to busineaa, and his health has
been impaired. Last spring no was III for
quite while, and this led him to resolve
on q rest OF a year or 30. It Ia the under.
standing, also, that Mr.. Hobbs, while not
averse to remaining in the concern as o
Btockholder, desires to be relieved from
active participation in its business. Mr..
Leighton, also, Is said to desire to retire
from business II he can do 90 without q
sacrifice, and to join his family, now re.
siding In Chicago. 1t was therefore 70.
solved to wind up the Affairs Of the Arm
after this year.
Just what dlspoaition will be made OF
the joint property ia not known. The
factory ia ono OF the best equipped in the
world. II has ffteen-pot, a thirteen.pot
and ten.pot furnace, Of the latent design
and equipment, thoroughly fitted up On.
craving, cutting and etching department,
and everything requisite to tho manu-
iacturs OF the finest colored and crystal
lime glass. No factory anywhere, in this
country or Europe, has introduced as
many new and popular ideas. The pres.
ent firm OF Hobbs, Brockunier 4 Co., was
formed in 1868, but had had control OF
the business from September Of the pre-.
vious year. Mr.. William Leighton, sr.,
was member OF the firm until 1888,
when his son, William Leighton, IT,, suc.
ceeded him, and for twenty years the
business has been In the same hands.
This firm has won national reputation
for enterprise and success. Some Of it's
artistic work rivaled anything ever i'm.
ported to this country, and at much lees
coat. Among the new things introduced
and made popular by the firm was Soda
lime glass, which 1t was fret to make. 1t
bought and perfected the monohydrete
patent; first employed fang to cool the
molds and pots, increasing tho output as
well az the comfort of the employees, and
in 1882 went extensively into ruby and
other fancy glass. Its limitations Of cut
glass were nsver equaled.
The dissolution Of go enterprislng and
successful firm will Cause general regret,
but all will indulge the hope that VI hoover
succeeds to tho control OF this important
industrial concern will continue the skill
fall and brilliant management which has
marked it in the past,